Terunobu Fujimori – offsite construction

I’ve spent a few days this week at the South London workshops of MDM Props, watching Terunobu Fujimori’s ‘Beetle’s House’ being constructed. We’ve had a wonderful team of volunteers from the RCA Architecture and Sculpture departments helping out with the build (HUGE thanks to the RCA’s Sarah Teasley and Nao Matsunaga for co-ordinating) – and we’ve also been honoured with the presence of Terunobu Fujimori himself (pictured above, with one of the Beetle’s House legs). Professor Fujimori has flown over from Tokyo for two weeks to oversee this crucial off-site construction period, ensuring that all goes to plan, before we move the construction to the V&A in a few weeks time.

1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces (2010)

1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces was a contemporary architecture exhibition exploring the power of small spaces. Running from 15 June - 30 August 2010 at the V&A, a number of international architects were asked to design structures which explored notions of refuge and 'retreat'. These buildings examined themes such as play, work, performance and study and were built at full-scale in various spaces within the V&A.Exhibition curator, Abraham Thomas documented the evolution of the exhibition and offered an insight into the architects' design and construction processes.